So, Maki grabbed the heaven scroll, and Aly grabbed the earth scroll. Then, they opened both scroll at the same time, and out of them came the familiar puff of smoke that was so commonly seen in jutsu…
The smoke cleared slowly, and a leaf chunin was revealed. He told the three to write the person character in the place it belonged, and explained the meaning of the riddle. After that, a door opened at the end of the hall, allowing them to continue on to where some other gennins were already waiting.
At this point, they realized that they had to wait there for another two days. Oh well, thought Aly, at least Gaara's already here.
So they sat, and waited…
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Two days later, after the last stragglers had reached the tower, the gennin were gathered up and led away. Coming into an arena of sorts, they were told to line up in some weird block formation. Despite the fact that once they were lined up, it looked pretty simple, it actually took quite awhile for everyone to figure out where to go. (1)
Once they finally got organized, a chunin from the leaf village explained what was happening. Because there were too many of them, there had to be preliminary rounds before the third exam. After explaining how the matches would happen, they all looked up at the large screen on the wall.
After a minute of word scrambling, the screen froze, revealing two names.
Akado Yoroi
Vs.
Uchiha Sasuke
Glad that she didn't have to go first, Aly walked with her team as well as Gaara's up to the balcony. She watched the first match with a detached look, not really caring who won. When the Sasuke guy won, Aly looked back up at the screen.
Again, the screen scrambled, finally ending on:
Aburame Shino
Vs.
Ali (2)
Aly was rather surprised at getting to go so soon, but decided just to go with it.
Looking at her opponent, she said, "Well, he looks like he's hiding something. I wonder what's under the coat."
Hearing this, Maki laughed and shoved her friend over the rail. Deciding to let herself look weak to lower his defenses, Aly let herself fall to the ground in a heap. Getting up and brushing herself off, the Alaskan stood up.
"Hey, they spelled my name wrong! Oh well, it's probably because I never really told anyone my whole name…" Aly smiled.
Shino only raised an eyebrow.
"You may begin," called the proctor. Immediately, Aly pulled out two kunai and threw them at her opponent. He easily dodged them, as was expected. Then, Aly watched as he did the most curious thing. He sent a swarm of insects after her. Then it clicked. Auburame, the clan that used chakra eating insects.
Thinking of her options, Aly felt the gift the Mr. America had given her during the meeting. She smiled.
"Well, if you're going to try to eat my chakra, then I won't use any!" Aly called to her opponent, pulling out a revolver.
Aiming the gun at her opponent, she fired. After a loud Bang, everyone had to wait as the smoke from the foreign device faded. Aly didn't wait, instead she ran straight into it.
When the smoke finally cleared, everyone saw Aly holding a pipe over Shino, who was laying on the ground, unconscious. It appeared as if she had taken him by surprise after that thing fired, and had knocked him out with the pipe. The mysterious weapon was nowhere to be seen.
No one saw the look of shock pasted across Shino's face. Everyone saw Aly's smile.
When the medics came up, they almost missed the small wound on his shoulder, gushing blood.
Aly walked back up to the balcony.
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The next match was Kankuro versus some leaf nin. Aly noted that he was actually a rather good fighter. His fatal mistake was mistaking Crow for Kankuro. Although, that was an easy mistake to make, seeing as Kankuro had switched himself with Crow.
Aly congratulated him on his win, even as everyone was still slightly wondering how she had won her own match.
Turning back to the screen, it announced that two leaf kunoichi would fight next. As she watched with boredom, Aly realized they must have been friends, or at the very least known each other. The fight seemed to represent something more to the two girls. It must have been symbolic to them.
Finally, the fourth match of the day came to a close. The girls were both unable to continue. That ending, also, seemed symbolic. Aly shrugged, turning back to the screen.
This time, it was Temari's turn. She was to fight some leaf nin named Tenten. Aly cheered her on as she went off to meet her opponent.
Aly watched as Temari continuously blew the other girls weapons back at her. When she won, Aly hugged Temari, congratulating her. Then, with the fifth match done, Everyone turned back to the screen.
Aly gazed up at it as it scrambled. Then, it slowed down, revealing the next match.
Nara Shikamaru
Vs.
Nejiri
Looking at her friend, Aly wished her teammate luck. He dodged Maki as she attempted to shove him over the edge like she did to Aly. Instead, he opted to walk down the stairs. Although, it seemed as if his opponent was not so lucky. He was pushed over the edge by a grinning blonde.
As the two guys met in the middle of the arena, they looked each other over. Aly noted that the leaf nin seemed unusually lazy.
Then, the proctor called for them to begin.
So, I wanted to make some things clear:
(1) Lining up in a square formation like it shows, is actually a lot more difficult than one would think, I would know, we've had to do it in marching band. After couple times it gets easier, but since they probably have never had to do that before, I figured it would take awhile for them to get organized, instead of just appearing that way like in the show.
(2) That would be the Japanese version of Aly, and since she doesn't like her full name (It's too long) most people don't know it.
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